Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Markus Quante       short CV

Dipl. Ing. Dipl. Met.

Senior Research Scientist
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht
Institute of Coastal Research
Environmental Chemistry Department / Atmospheric Physics Group
Max-Planck-Strasse 1
D-21502 Geesthacht
Germany

Research interests:

Regional modelling of chemistry transport in a changing climate

specific topics:

Clouds in Transport & Chemistry

Clouds and Climate

Coastal Meteorology

Cirrus

( cirrus painting by Linn Quante )

Turbulence

Teaching:

"Scientific basis of climate change" , Master Programme on Sustainability Sciences at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

Winter semester 10/11: "Climate Modelling" and "Modern Physics and its didactical implementation"

Scientific coordinator of the "North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment" : NOSCCA

HZG-Coordinator within EU-FP7 Project EGIDA

Participating Researcher: Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction, clisap

Member of NASA's CloudSat Science Team

Member of the Scientific Advisory Commitee of the Eurpean Research Course on Atmospheres, E R C A

Member of the Science Strategic Initiative on Climate Change (SSICC), International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, ICES

past activity May 2007:

GKSS Summer School

"Persistent Pollution: Past, Present and Future

Forthcoming event: ZeitlosLauf

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Some recent publications

(selected from different fields)



• Gryning, S.-E., E. Batchvarova, M. Quante, and V. Matthias, 2012: Evaluation of vertical profiles in mesoscale meteorological models based on observations for the COST728 study of winter 2003 PM episodes over Europe. In Steyn, D.G., and S. Trini Castelli (eds.): Air Pollution Modelling and its Application XXI. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security 4, Springer Science + Business Media, 499-503.
  
  
• Quante, M., A. Aulinger, und V. Matthias, 2011: Der Schifftransport und sein Beitrag zum Klimawandel. In J. Lozán, H. Graßl, L. Karbe und K. Reise, Warnsignal Klima: Die Meere - Änderungen und Risiken. Wissenschaftliche Auswertungen, Hamburg, ISBN 978-39809668-5-2, 286-293.
  
  
• Quante, M., 2011: The role of clouds in atmospheric transport and chemistry. In. Quante et al., 2011: Persistent Pollution - Past, Present, Future. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 299-316.
  
  
• Quante, M., R. Ebinghaus, and G. Flöser (eds.), 2011: Persistent Pollution - Past, Present, Future. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 417pp. Authors: F. Adams, A. Aulinger, C. Barbante, N. Berrojalbiz, M. Bolshov, C. Boutron, P. Brimblecombe, P. Cescon, G. Cozzi, J. Dachs, R. Ebinghaus, H. Elbern, V. Hellwig, H. Helmholz, C. Ferrari, E. Friese, C. Galban, P. Garbrielli, R. Giola, H. Graßl, H. Hintelmann, S. Hong, S.-D. Hur, A. Jahnke, K. Jones, R. Khaiwal, V. Matthias, L. Mejanelle, L. Nieradzki, L. Nizzetto, J. Pacyna, W. Palm, J. Plane, M. Quante, K. Rosman, H. von Storch, A. Strunk, N. Theobald, C. Turetta, P. Vallelonga, S. del Vento, Z. Xie.
  
  
• Holliday, N.P., M. Quante, T. Sherwin, G. Nolan, K.-A. Mork, H. Cannaby, and D. Berry, 2011: North Atlantic circulation and atmospheric forcing. In Reid, P. C., and Valdés, L. (eds.): ICES status report on climate change in the North Atlantic. ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 310, 5-20.
  
  
• Holliday, N.P., S.L. Hughes, K. Borenäs,R. Feistel, F. Gaillard, A. Lavìn, H. Loeng, K.-A. Mork, G. Nolan, M. Quante, and R. Somavilla 2011: Long-term physical variability in the North Atlantic Ocean. In Reid, P. C., and Valdés, L. (eds.): ICES status report on climate change in the North Atlantic. ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 310, 21-46.
  
  
• Holliday, N.P., S.L. Hughes, M. Quante, and B. Rudels, 2011: Sea level rise and changes in Arctic sea ice. In Reid, P. C., and Valdés, L. (eds.): ICES status report on climate change in the North Atlantic. ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 310, 47-58.
  
  
• Yang, H., S. Dobbie, G. G. Mace, A. Ross, and M. Quante, 2011: GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) cirrus cloud working group: modelling case development based on 9 March 2000 ARM SGP observations. Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 4, 2751-2790.
  
  
• Hermans, A., F. Ament, B. Geyer, V. Matthias, M. Quante, and B. Rockel, 2011: Evaluation of Humidity, Clouds and Precipitation in COSMO-CLM and MM5 over Germany. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, , XX, under revision
  
  
• Matthias, V., A. Aulinger, J. Bieser, J. Cuesta, B. Geyer, B. Langmann, I. Serikov, I. Mattis, A. Minikin, L. Monad, M. Quante, U. Schumann, B. Weinzierl, 2011: The ash dispersion over Europe during the Eyjafjallajökull eruption - comparison of CMAQ simulations to remote sensing and air-borne in-situ observations. Atmospheric Environment, accepted
  
  
• Bieser, J, A. Aulinger, V. Matthias, M. Quante, and H.A.C. Denier van der Gon, 2011: Vertical emission profiles for Europe based on plume rise calculations. Environmental Pollution, accepted
  
  
• Bieser, J., Aulinger, A., Matthias, V., Quante, M., Builtjes, P., 2011: SMOKE for Europe – Adaptation, modification and evaluation of a comprehensive emission model for Europe. Geoscientific Model Development, 4, 47-68.
  
  
• Aulinger, A., V. Matthias, and M. Quante, 2011: An approach to temporally disaggregate Benzo(a)pyrene emissions and their application to a 3D Eulerian atmospheric chemistry transport model. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 216, 643-655.
  
  
• Drees, C., P. Brandmayr, J. Buse, P. Dieker, S. Gürlich, J. Habel, I. Harry, W. Härdtle, A. Matern, H. Meyer, R. Pizzolotto, M. Quante, K. Schäfer, A. Schuldt, A. Taboada, and T. Assmann, 2011: Poleward range expansion without a southern contraction in the ground beetle Agonum viridicupreum (Coleoptera: Carabidae). ZooKeys, 100,333-352.
  
  
• Matthias, V., I. Bewersdorff, A. Aulinger, and M. Quante, 2010: The contribution of ship emissions to air pollution in the North Sea regions. Environmental Pollution 158,2241-2250.
  
  
• Quante, M., 2010: The Changing Climate - Past, Present, Future. In Habel, J., and T. Assmann(eds.): Relict Species – Phylogeography and Conservation Biology. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 9-56.
  
  
• Quante, M., V. Matthias, S.-E. Gryning, E. Batchvarova, A. Aulinger, C. Chemel, G. Geertsema,B. Geyer, H. Jakobs, A. Kerschbaumer, M. Prank, R. San José, H. Schlünzen, J. Struzewska, B. Szintai, R. Wolke., 2009: Using windprofiler data in time and frequency domain for the evaluation of meteorological drivers employed in chemistry transport modelling. 8th International Sysmposium on Tropospheric Profiling, ISTP, Delft, S07 - O06.
  
  
• Quante, M., 2009: Spectral behaviour of modelled wind time series and a comparison to respective windprofiler observations. In H. Schluentzen (ed.),COST728-Report Workshop Hamburg 2008, in print.
  
  
• Volker Matthias, V., A. Aulinger, and M. Quante (2009): CMAQ simulations of the benzo(a)pyrene distribution over Europe for 2000 and 2001. Atmos. Env., 43, 4078-4086.
  
  
• Quante, M., und R. Zakrzewski, 2008: Entwicklung der Temperatur- und Niederschlagszeitreihen in der Region Lüneburg. Jb. Naturw. Verein Fstm. Lbg., 44, 83–88.
  
  
• Matthias, V., M. Quante, and A. Aulinger, 2009: The influence of MM5 nudging schemes on CMAQ simulations of Benzo(a)Pyrene concentrations and depositions in Europe. Environmental Fluid Dynamics, 9, 91-108, DOI 10.1007/s10652-008-9103-6
  
  
• Bewersdorff, I. A. Aulinger, V. Matthias, M. Quante, 2009: The effect of temporal resolution of PAH emission data on transport and deposition patterns simulated with the community multiscale air quality modelling system (CMAQ). Meteorol. Zeitschrift, 18, 41-53.
  
  
• Matthias, V., A. Aulinger, and M. Quante, 2007: Adapting CMAQ to investigate air pollution in North Sea coastal regions. Environmental Modelling & Software 23 356-368.
  
  
• Quante, M., 2007: Distribution and transport of water in the atmosphere. In Lozán, J.L., H. Graßl, P. Hupfer, L. Menzel, and Ch.-D. Schönwiese (eds.): GLOBAL CHANGE: Enough Water for all?, Wissenschaftliche Auswertungen, Hamburg, 45-52.
  
  
• Sassen, K., L. Wang, D.O’C. Starr, J. Compstock, and M. Quante, 2007: A midlatitude cirrus cloud climatology from the Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing: V. Cloud structural properties. J. Atmos. Sci. 64, 2483-2501.
  
  
• Quante, M., and V. Matthias, 2006: Water in the Earth´s atmosphere. Journal de Physique, 139, 37-61.
  
  
• Aulinger, A., V. Matthias, and M. Quante, 2006: Introducing a partitioning mechanism for PAHs into the Community Multiscale Air Quality modelling system and its apllication to simulating the transport of benzo(a)pyrene over Europe. J. Appl. Meteorol. , 46 1718-1730.
  
  
• Scholl, T., K. Pfeilsticker, A. Davis, H. Klein Baltink, S. Crewell, U. Löhnert, C. Simmer, J. Meywerk, and M. Quante, 2006: Path length distributions for solar photons under cloudy skies: Comparison of measured first and second moments with predictions from classical and anomalous diffusion theories. J. Geophys. Res.., 111 , D12211, doi:10.1029/2004JD005707.
  
  
• van Lipzig, N.P.M., M. Schröder, S. Crewell, F. Ament, J.-P. Chaboureau, U. Löhnert, V. Matthias, E. van Meijgaard, M. Quante, U. Willén, W. Yen, 2006: Model predicted low-level cloud parameters. Part I: Comparison with observations from the BALTEX Bridge Campaigns. Atmos. Res. >, 82, 55-82.
  
  
• Quante, M., 2005: Verteilung und Transport von Wasser in der Atmosphäre. In J.L. Lozán, H. Graßl, P. Hupfer, L. Menzel und C.-D. Schönwiese (Hrsg.):Warnsignal Klima: Genug Wasser für alle?, Wissenschaftliche Auswertungen, Hamburg, ISBN 3-9809668-0-1, 49-56.
  
  
• Meywerk, J., M. Quante and O. Sievers, 2005: Radar based remote sensing of cloud liquid water - application of various techniques - a case study. Atmos. Res., 75, 167-181.
  
  
• Quante, M., 2004: The role of clouds in the climate system. Journal de Physique IV, 121, 61-86.
  
  
• Donovan, D.P., M. Quante, I. Schlimme, and A. Macke, 2004: Use of equivalent spheres to model the relation between radar reflectivity and optical extinction of ice cloud particles. Applied Optics, 43 (25), 4929-4940.
  
  
• Crewell, S., C. Simmer, U. Löhnert, V. Venema, A. Feijt, E. van Meijgaard, A. van Lammeren, H. Bloemink, D. Jolivet, M. Schröder, U. Willen, M. Quante, J. Meywerk, O.A. Krasnov, T. Trautmann, S. Gimeno Garcia, K. Pfeilsticker, and T. Scholl, 2004: The BALTEX Bridge Campaign - An integrated approach for a better understanding of clouds. Bull. Amer. Meteorl. Soc., 85(10), 1565-1584.
  
  
• Russenberg, H., S. Crewell, U. Loehnert, M. Quante, J. Meywerk, H. Klein Baltink, and O. Krasnov, 2004: Radar observations of stratocumulus compared with in situ aircraft data and simulations. Proceedings of ERAD, 296-300
  
  
• Hogan, R. J., P. N. Francis, H. Flentje, A. J. Illingworth, M. Quante and J. Pelon, 2003: Characteristics of mixed-phase clouds: Part I: Lidar, radar and aircraft observations from CLARE'98. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc., 129, 2117-2134.
  
  
• Quante, M., G. Teschke, M. Zhariy, P. Maaß, and K. Sassen, 2002: Extraction and analysis of structural features in cloud radar and lidar data using wavelet based methods. Proceedings of ERAD, 95-103.
  
  
• Raschke, E., und M. Quante, 2002: Wolken und Klima. Promet, 28.Jahrgang, Heft 3/4, 99-111.
  
  
• Quante, M., and D. O'C. Starr, 2002: Dynamical processes in cirrus clouds: Review of observational results. Chapter 17 in: D. Lynch, K. Sassen, D.O'C. Starr, G. Stephens (eds.): Cirrus. Oxford University Press, New York, 346-374.
  
  
• Starr, D. O'C., and M. Quante, 2002: Dynamical processes in cirrus clouds: Concepts and models. Chapter 18 in: D. Lynch, K. Sassen, D.O'C. Starr, G. Stephens (eds.): Cirrus. Oxford University Press, New York, 375-396.
  
  
• Lynch, D.K., K. Sassen, A. Del Genio, A. Heymsfield, P. Minnis, M. Platt, M. Quante, U. Schumann, and H. Sundqvist, 2002: Cirrus: The future. Chapter 21 in: D. Lynch, K. Sassen, D.O'C. Starr, G. Stephens (eds.): Cirrus. Oxford University Press, New York, 449-555.
  
  
• Donovan, D.P., van Lammeren, A.C.A.P., Hogan, R.J., Russchenberg, H., Apituley, A., Francis, P., Testud, J., Pelon, J., Quante, M., and Goddard, J., 2000: Cloud effective particle size and water content profile retrievals using combined lidar and radar observations: Part II: Comparison with IR radiometer and in-situ measurements of ice clouds. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 27449-27464.
  
  
• Crewell, S., U. Löhnert, A. van Lammeren, and M. Quante, 2000: Cloud remote sensing by combining synergetic sensor information. Phys. Chem. Earth (B), 25, 1043-1048.
  
  
• Danne, O., M. Quante, E. Raschke, and C. Weitkamp, 1999: Investigations of cloud layer base and top heights from 95 GHz radar reflectivity data. Phys. Chem. Earth (B), 24 (3), 167-171.
  
  
• Danne, O., M. Quante, D. Milferstädt, H. Lemke, and E. Raschke, 1999: Relationships between Doppler spectral moments within large-scale cirro- and altostratus cloud fields observed by a ground-based 95 GHz cloud radar. J. Appl. Meteorol., 38 (2), 175-189.
  
  
• Fujiyoshi, Y., M. Quante, O. Danne, and E. Raschke, 1999: Properties of deep stratiform ice cloud revealed by 95 GHz GKSS cloud radar - a case study.Contr. Atmos. Phys., 72 (1), 113-125.
  
  
• Lemke, H., H. Okamoto, M. Quante, 1998: Comment on error analysis of backscatter from discrete dipol approximation for different ice particle shapes. Atmos. Res., 49, 189-197.
  
  
• Lemke, H., and M. Quante, 1999: Backscatter characteristics of nonspherical ice crystals: Assessing the potential of polarimetric radar measurements.J. Geophys. Res., 104 (D24), 31739-31752.
  
  
• Okamoto, H., A. Macke, M. Quante, E. Raschke, 1995: Modeling of backscattering by non-spherical ice particles for the interpretation of cloud radar signals at 94 GHz. An error analysis. Contr. Atmos. Phys.,68, 319-334.
  
  
• Quante, M., 1998: Millimeterwellen-Radargeräte zur Wolkenfernerkundung. Ann. der Meteorologie, 32, 197-210.
  
  
• Quante, M., P.R.A. Brown, R. Baumann, B. Guillemet, and P. Hignett, 1996: Three aircraft intercomparison of dynamical and thermodynamical measurements during the Pre-EUCREX campaign. Contr. Atmos. Phys., 69, 129-146.
  
  
• Quante, M., H. Lemke, H. Flentje, P. Francis, and J. Pelon, 2000: Boundaries and internal structure of mixed phase clouds as deduced from ground based 95-GHz radar and airborne lidar measurements. Phys. Chem. Earth., 25 (10-12), 889-895.
  
  
• Quante, M., J.P.V. Poiares Baptista, E. Raschke (eds.), 1998: Synergy of Active Instruments in the Earth Radiation Mission. Report ESA EWP-1968 / GKSS/98/E/10, 205pp.
  
  
• Raschke, E., und M. Quante, 2000: Do we need a cloud radar in space? Key Note in H. Kumagai, H. Kuroiwa, and H. Okamoto (eds.): Proceedings First International Workshop on Spaceborne Cloud Profiling Radar, 24-26 January 2000, Tsukuba, Japan. 15-22.
  
  
• Ström, J., R. Busen, M. Quante, B. Guillemet, P.R.A. Brown, J. Heintzenberg, 1994: Pre-EUCREX Intercomparison of airborne humidity measuring instruments. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., Vol. 11, 1392-1399.
  
  
  

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